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Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde

Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.

Texas Governors Have Politicized "Border Security" for Decades. What Have They Accomplished?

Texas governors since 9/11 have pledged billions to secure the state's border with Mexico, but a lack of accountability suggests that electoral and partisan concerns have been the key motive. 

How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism

Right wing misinformation has linked the nation's borders with race war discourse that encourages vigilantism, according to historian Carly Goodman. 

Monica Muñoz Martinez Is Setting the Record Straight on Texas’s History of Border Violence

"As a historian, when I’m researching these events of racist violence that have not been documented, I don’t know what is going to happen or what the outcome will be. It is really hard to read newspaper articles that celebrate violence."

The Greater the Disaster, the Greater the Profits

by Todd Miller

Believe me, the forces that shaped our southern border over the decades have been far more powerful than Donald Trump or any individual politician.

There’s No Migrant ‘Surge’ at the U.S. Southern Border. Here’s the Data

Three political scientists argue that the recent media narrative of a "border crisis" is political hype and not supported by data about historical migration patterns. Looking at month-to-month fluctuations distorts the situation and leads to bad policy. 

Greg Grandin's The End of The Myth" Awarded Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

Historian Greg Grandin's book on the history and symbolism of the border (and border walls) has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction. 

The History Behind the Border and Immigrant Detention Centers

by HNN Staff

Families are separated at the border and people are indefinitely detained in overcrowded facilties. How a panel at this year's AHA conference examined the history of immigration. 

The American Myth Behind the Border Wall

by Greg Grandin

The history of racial and sexual violence on the border. 

Historian Greg Grandin's book “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America” Reviewed in the New Yorker 

What the border fight means for one of the nation’s most potent, and most violent, myths.

Why Trump’s fearmongering about Muslims at the border misses the mark

by Randa Tawil

There are Muslims at the border. But they’ve been there since the late 19th century.

El Paso museum sheds light on Border Patrol's history, mission

"For the most part, the museum does a fair job of explaining the agency's metamorphosis."

Pancho Villa, prostitutes and spies: The U.S.-Mexico border wall’s wild origins

President Trump’s visit to the border to demand $5.7 billion for a wall marks another chapter in the boundary’s tortured history